Ordinal & cardinal numbers

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Numbers in English

1. The numbers in English

1.1. Cardinal numbers

Cardinal numbers say how many people or things there are.

Examples:
    There are five books on the desk.
    Ron is ten years old.

1.1.1. Numbers bigger than 20

21   =  twenty-one
55 =     fifty-five

99  =   ninety-nine

What is the rule?

1.1.2. Numbers bigger than 100

121     a/one hundred and twenty-one
356     three hundred and fifty-six
999     nine hundred and ninety-nine

256? (British)

1. two hundred fifty-six
2. two hundred and fiftysix
3. two hundred and fifty-six

1.1.3.Numbers bigger than 1,000

1,121     a/one thousand and one hundred and twenty-one

2,356     two thousand and three hundred and fifty-six

Rule?

Rule:

Use a hyphen between compound numbers and the word and.
Use either the definite article a or one for 1,000.
Separate three digits with a comma (,) → 50,000.

Ordinal Numbers?

representing position or rank in a sequential order

seven

1. cardinal
2. ordinal

The seventh son

1. ordinal
2. cardinal

I am so happy that he won the 1 prize.

ten thousand (number British)

It was his derde goal in the last twee games.

The old man celebrated his 88 birthday.

Answers

first

10,000

third, two

eighty-eighth

It's his veertigste birthday.

1. fourtieth
2. forties
3. fourty
4. fortieth

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